Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH v6 00/23] virtagent: host/guest RPC communication agent

[Anthony Liguori]

On 02/18/2011 09:22 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
>
> > > It may not be so fundamental, but it still makes me wary. XMLRPC
> > > handling is quite high level and introduces the potential of errors 
> > > that
> > > are outside of our direct control. Personally I don't see the big
> > > benefit of having virtagent terminate in QEMU,
> >
> > Live migration. If it's a separate daemon, then live migration gets 
> > fugly.
> >
> > If xmlrpc-c is a PoS, then we ought to look at using something else.
>
> Anyone looked at using json instead?  We already have a bunch of code 
> for that thanks to QMP ...

It was really, really hard to reuse but with QAPI, it might be worth 
reconsidering.  But this is a fast moving area ATM.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> cheers,
>   Gerd